Simon Wascher wrote:
>Frank Nordberg wrote:
>>
>> Just like to tell everybody at abcusers that I've just posted a complete
>> ABC edition of Tielman Susato's "Danserye"
>
>Hey great, thats really nice.
It is indeed - thank you Frank.
>> My transcriptions raises a few interesting questions regarding
>> ABC-versions of early music. Should we add barlines? How do we disern
>> between original and editorial accidentals? etc. etc. etc.
>> Anybody's views on those question are much apreciated.
>
>I usually use "#"A or "b"A to show editorial accidentals.
Yes. Perhaps "^#" would be better.
>About the barlines, I would primarily say no, lets give the source as
>pure as possible, but maybe for the sake of usability just add a note:
>no barlines in the source.
It depends on what you are trying to do here. Barlines do make the music
much easier to read, and easier to check for correctness. Also it's
much easier for a user to take them out than it is to put them in again,
if that's what is required.
>I would find it much better to write the
>music voice after voice. It is not really possible to read the four
>voices in paralell in the abc text anyway and it is complicate to
>extract parts for playing.
>I still find that programmers should enable voice after voice input. The
>way it is here simply mixes up text matters and layout matters (not your
>fault).
I disagree. Writing the abc line by line preserves the original
music layout in the abc, and I find it much more readable. I notice,
however that in some of the pieces you have two lines in each voice.
This seems to me to be the worst possible compromise.
Phil Taylor
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